A new year means new attendees approach the high school. Freshman have descended upon the gym in hopes of learning more about the way the high school is operated and meet some of their teachers. This freshman orientation is called Fish Camp. It can be very beneficial to many first time high school students.
“I felt that the orientation was very helpful to me,” freshman Makenna Isabell said. “It really explained some of the rules and regulations in an easy way to understand.”
Some of the high school’s rules may not be what the new freshmen had hoped for. Students are not just left to ‘run wild’ on campus there are traditions and rules that need to be followed. One of the many traditional rules is bottom lockers go to underclassmen and top lockers go to upperclassmen, or that is the way it usually is.
“I wish that freshmen had top lockers,” Isabell said. “I understand that the upperclassmen have earned the privilege of top lockers, it would just be nice if the freshmen had a chance at a top locker.”
Fish camp is included faculty and student speakers, a demonstration on pep rallies and a tour of the high school. The tour of the high school might have been the most beneficial to some students who have never visited the high school campus before or didn’t know which classes were in which wings.
“I loved the tours of the school,” freshmen Emily Breiten said. “ I have never been to this campus and had no idea where things were, I know that without the tour I would have been hopelessly lost.”